Discussion Groups / English Usage / November 2006

can someone explain me what the word "Takeahnase" means?
It is uses in a lyric of the group Neurosis. The lyrics are this:
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When it begins - Takeahnase - the floods will sever the

Please help to check if the commas in the sentence below are
placed appropriately, or suggest a better way to write it.
A, B, and C are the number of objects in, the total mass of,
and the total error of cluster k, respectively.

x-no-archive:make it so!
I've done this so that my long-legged Pleasance doesn't see it.

Question: does "that" sometimes mean "if"?
I think that in this context:
"Better that he had [stolen those things]"
means

1. I've adapted the Wheel of Fortune to a Chinese version.
2. I've adapted the Wheel of Fortuen into a Chinese version.
Which sentence is correct? Or both are wrong or right?  If both are
wrong, how to make a correct one? If both are right, which one is

In BrE, is "the dear" here an euphemism?
(for the devil, perhaps).
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[Helen, describing the Wilcox house]

You know the word, 'aisle'.
That souds like /ail/.
The 's' in 'aisle' is not pronounced.
If some non-native speaker says like this, "You can find it over there,

I had to sweat a copper pipe today
in order to install a new tap.
Had to use flux with solder and a
blow torch.

Proved over and over in this group. Don't listen to this dipshit.

Sentences, take a look:
1:
Please step one of the red square.
2:

Why reproduce all that junk in translation? Consider the following text
(preface) from Kant's first Kritik, 1781:
Die menschliche Vernunft hat das besondere Schicksal in einer Gattung
ihrer Erkenntnisse: daß sie durch Fragen belästigt wird, die sie

Does any one know of an on-line British dictionary where I can use "wild
cards" to search for letter combinations, e.g. <*gn> (without the brackets)
to find all the words ending in "gn"?
I'm becoming increasingly interested in all the phonetic and unphonetic

Wonder if his answer is a a way of saying things in a very indirect,
reserved and polite manner. It definitely seems to be so to me.
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"Do you agree?" asked Margaret. "Do you think music is so different to

From _The Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery_,
"INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS" page:
<http://edmgr.ovid.com/prs/accounts/ifauth.htm>
[quote]

THE DEFINITION OF ANYTHING NEW
IS THE MEANING OF REMOVING THE UNDERSTANDING
UNDER WHICH THE WAYS OF THE WHY IT WAS
IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN